想象上海的方式和上海式的“启蒙”——评王安忆的《启蒙时代》

A Way to Imagining Shanghai and Enlightenment in a Shanghai's Way——On Wang Anyi's The Age of Enlightenment

将王安忆的长篇小说《启蒙时代》看成是一种聚合着个人与历史色彩的想象上海的方式,这部小说其实代表的是一种上海式的"启蒙"。通过赋予小说中诸多人物以及人物的生活背景和生存状况,以种种关乎日常生活话语的阐释,想象性地介入到小说所虚构的主体,在特定的历史时代中的言说和遭际,传达他们对人生现实和生命本真的追求,以及在不断地探求中所滋生的困惑和痛苦,并最终透过隐藏在种种表层之下的城市形态、时代幻想和精神迷茫,揭示作者所表现的现实审视和人性救赎。

Considered as a way to imagining Shanghai with individual and historical tints, Wang Anyi＇s novel The Age of Enlightenment represents a kind of enlightenment in a shanghai＇s way. In this novel, Wang introduced many different characters. By giving the novel a lot of characters and their life background, living conditions, all kinds of related daily discourse interpretation, imagination involved in the novel the fictional subject and the speech and misfortune in the specific historical era, Wang not only con- veys their pursuit of true reality and life, but also their puzzlement and pain therein. Wang attempted to show an attitude of inspection and redemption on life and reality by reflecting urban state, fantasy on age and people＇s bewildered mentality.